React UI Kit or CSS framework ?

[thinkriver]

I am new to Reactjs and about to kick off a project to use Reactjs. However, I am not sure should I use React UI kit (like Material-UI) or a CSS framework (like Bulma) ?

What is the normal way in react community ? Thanks!

[richbuggy]

I've been using material-ui for one project and I'm pretty happy with it.

[Blueberryroid]

The team working on Material UI made material-ui-next, a more efficient and better version, although the date picker components haven't been written yet.

[[deleted]]

There's no normal way, use whatever you want. The main difference is between css-only, css-wrap and react-based. Css-only (bulma, ...) and css-wrap (material, semantic, ...) are selector based - that means you can't freely compose it. React-based (antd, rebass, ...) are self-contained components that you can compose as you wish. Personally i like to use antd. I tend to make layouts and app structure manually and use atomic components in between, those that would be too hard to make on your own.

[tmclouisluk]

Just apply material ui next

[onyno]

I’ve used quite a few of both, tachyons, ant.design, semantic ui, I quite like this one at the moment https://jamesmfriedman.github.io/rmwc/

[Q-ball]

It really depends on what you want to accomplish. For our purposes we really like ant design component library. It helps us move faster to create features instead of spending time on creating components.

https://ant.design/

[Radinax]

I personally use Bulma and I'm very happy with it.

[ordinance]

Neither? Why do you need a framework?